Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: ABOMINABLE
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I review the 2006 Sasquatch/Yeti/Whatever movie "Abominable"!
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Sasquatch? Yeti? Hey, as long as there's some decent kills in the movie: who cares?
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Second for the first timе. Also review G:Minus One
Can you review all monsters attack next
Aberration 1997 next?
Can you look at a Dinosaur Movie called Baby Secret Of The Lost Legend🦕
My favorite part is Lance Hendrickson giving a detailed description of a Darwin Award winner
Whoever designed the bigfoot for this movie really did a good job; the bigfoot is unnerving to look at because it is almost in the 'uncanny valley' range. It looks vaguely familar humanwise but there are enough differences to throw you off and make you a little uncomfortable.
I think thats why this bigfoot scared me so much as a kid and has remained in my memory for years.
I would say it is the teeth and how he dislocate his jaw. Instead of just being "another ape", he really feel like a monster
I'm 35, saw this movie when I was 17 or something on Scifi, it STILL freaks me out.
It definitely hits that uncanny valley.
Yeah, it looks more like a giant deformed caveman rather than a bipedal gorilla, which makes it more creepy and more scientific.
Looks like a Bigfoot with with down syndrome and dwarfism.
@@Noperare The teeth could have been better, there were to many for that mouth. I was hoping teeth that were more like the Genoskwa has, and throw in some super long and pointy fingernails. That would make it more frightening.
It's important to remember: "Cult" isn't necessarily synonymous with "Bad", and this movie is a perfect example of that!
Yeah though "syfy" is synonymous for being bad
Just 90% of the time, it's in relation to something terrible.
"Cult" doesn't mean "Good". Just means unexpected fan base.
@@haydenysidro9388 when it was Sci-Fi it was good.
@@SirAsdf99%
I like the gigantic mouth they gave the yeti, really gives this monster a unique look.
Just think how easy it could win the Nathan hotdog contest.😋
Like Rawhead Rex.
Jeffrey Combs is so underrated it's mind boggling.
Horror fans all know him best as "The Re-animator".
The protagonist has lots of lower body issues...
He's paralyzed in this movie and gets bitten in half in Deep Star Six.
Bulkhead I needed that!
i agree
I know him as Ratchet from Transformers Prime 😅
I'll be honest this one has surprised me, the 'yeti' didn't look all that bad, I really liked the bizarre large mouth and teeth. I was surprised Otis came back and actually helped and died a very horrific death, like genuinely that made me go 'ewww'. Seems like one of the better SyFy movies overall!
Dog Soldiers premiered on Scifi. Neither of these were made by scifi or Asylum like most of the trash on that channel these days so thats the difference.
Lance Henriksen's batshit crazy speech at the campfire was absolutely hilarious!
I imagine Lance, Combs, and Rex drinking brews and laughing about Lance's insane improv.
Lance has also played Kerchak in Disney’s Tarzan.
lance's speech wasn't improv, that darwin story is an extremely famous old internet story in the late 90s perpetuated by a site called the darwin awards
I've had friends with super strict religious parents who didn't restrict their kids as much as RUclips restricts everything.
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Step one to becoming an atheist: experience the aggressively suppressive nature of religion.
To be fair...
They DO have the old testament.
The mere fact that this review needed to censor parts of this movie is killing me. DjooToobe will soon censorship itself into MySpace territory.
Yeah man, I don't get jokes either
Bear in mind, Brandon is reviewing the enhanced Blu-Ray version. The creature's eyes were CGI'ed over, probably to make it more alive. Though personally, I prefer the original with the obvious plastic eyes. Makes it more creepy.
Fun Fact:
There was an unmade monster film
from Universal Pictures called *"Abominable"* back in the mid-1990s.
It was written by Troy Neighbors & Steven Fienberg, with Moshe Diamant as the producer, either Peter Hyams
or Renny Harlin as the director, and Jean Claude Van Damme was to star in the lead role.
The story was set in Tibet, where
a U.N. task force investigates the mysterious disappearance of Red
Cross workers in the Himalayas
before Van Damme's character
eventually goes face-to-face with the monstrous Abominable Snowman.
Really? I am very sad we never got that movie then. That's up there with the planned At the Mountains of Madness adaptation we never got, which was going to star Tom Cruise. but the studio's condition was it be PG-13 which is preposterous.
Kinda sounds like the reverse situation with Van Damme in the original cut of Predator
That's so disheartening.. it could have been so great =/
@GiantBoarMonster - I feel like they COULD do At The Mountains of Madness as more of a psychological thriller, but censoring the bodies they discover would absolutely trash the whole damn thing.
@@GiantBoarMonster
I hate it when that happens.
I mean, just look at the infamous
2005 werewolf film by horror legend Wes Craven: *"CURSED"!*
That was supposed to a R-rated werewolf film. But the Weinsteins not only ordered a rework on the film while they were 90% done with the original cut (all that was missing were the CGI, film score, and the ending which was set in
a wax museum) before replacing most of the original cast and Rick Baker's werewolf effects with a new cast & new effects by KNB EFX; but they also ordered for a new ending (despite the ending they did filmed got a positive reception with test screenings) and then had the more uncut version of the film re-edited in post-production, replacing a lot of KNB's practical FXs with CGI and trim the violence & gore to go for a PG-13 rating.
Van Damme fighting yeti, that would've been great, and Steven Seagal could've played the Yeti , afterall he's about the same size , definitely as heavy!!!!👍😀
The "can't report someone missing for 48 hours" is a myth, but a convenient one for horror and crime movies.
Definetly..also the police never believes them at first, the power has to go out at some point, and of course cell phones are rendered useless by being in an area with bad/no reception😅😅😅
I remember when Brandon had 60k subs and no sponsors. It's like watching your son grow up. I'm so proud😭😊
Looking at the cast list for this film, it would seem the person in charge of casting clearly had a very detailed blackmail list.
It makes you wonder just how much of the actual budget went to paying for all these guest-starring roles! Lance Henriksen, Jeffrey Combs, Dee Wallace Stone, Etc. Lol!
@@ItsFreakinHarding. The cast list is probably the most memorable thing about this movie. Well that and Brandon's review, of course.
I'm sitting here with it paused at 11:35 absolutely flabbergasted. The man playing the biologist is Australian jazz legend James Morrison. A distinction so obscure that most Aussies can be forgiven for not knowing who he is. He has been a presenter (Aussie top gear), music shows, etc. This is the first time I have ever seen him in a movie, let alone a yeti-core video nasty! So cool.
Yep, it is. He's a long time friend of Lalo Shifrin, i assume that's where this came from xD
As far as bigfoot horror movies go,this is one of the best.
PSA: you don’t have to wait any period of time to report a missing person, movies just made that up to explain not getting the cops involved
Cops still use the excuse because they're lazy. Just keep demanding to speak to the person in charge of missing persons cases.
you can report them but if they're an adult ( and not of advanced age) the police usually will not do anything until they have been missing longer than a couple hours. Unless you have credible proof/info that they were taken or something like that. Different story if it's a child.
Since gamera rebirth is on netflix, you should do the trilogy of actual good films he was in. I mean, seriously at the end of your original gamera month You told us about the trilogy of gamera films that were actually not only good, but some of the best Monster movies ever, so you owe it to us the fans to make a video about those 3 movies.
He... owes you?
Unless you're paying for them over at Patreon, Brandon don't owe you jack.
He owes it to himself after suffering through the 60s-70s Gamera films.
He might not have been a Sasquatch, Yeti seemed to turn out just fine!
At least this has Lance, a great guy as well as a great actor. He's referred to these credits as "alimony movies."
"Remember George. Paralysis now, Insanity later." 😉
Me and my mom had a blast watching this on the SciFi channel years ago. Also Frankenfish is a fun movie too, it's shown briefly when talking about schlocky movies that sci-fi used to show
some of their cGI-fest movies... actually use the CGI in ways that would otherwise need Ray Harryhausen grade miniatures to pull off. So I can't really fault them for that... oh and Sharknado.... THAT needs the CGI to work.
Damn. Brandon reviewing Abominable? My childhood collides!
When the blonde chick crashed through the car windshield, I laughed so hard. Pure comedy! LMAO!
Karen. Her name is Karen.
Oh? Even better! LMAO! @@markyk68
About 20 years ago, I was hiking up in the Adirondacks, in the woods. I heard a strange sound and quietly sneaked into this clearing. That's where bigfoot saw me. To this day, no one believes him.
Okay. That was a good one.
Same with the Jersey Devil. No one wants to believe he saw the horrifying creature called 'Alondro'.
You can't typecast Paul Gleason. He was in a lot more than just The Breakfast Club. With 152 credits on IMDb, he was in all genres of movies and television. Paul's big screen highlights include Trading Places and a little indie project, Die Hard. His television roles are too long and varied to attempt to list. Did he often play cops or deans? Yes, but there were also priests, doctors and even abusive parents.
On a personal note, my mom went to high school with Paul. She remembered him as a good-natured prankster. She got a kick whenever we found another one of his roles to watch. When she encountered him years later at reunions, he was as jovial as ever.
Matt McCoy has lots of credits to his name too. He’s been in horror movies a lot and also was in Seinfeld!
Had fond memories of this movie. Glad to see a lot of people remember it.
I see a lot of people saying this movie scared them when they were kids. This movie came out when I was 30. I didn't realize I was that old. Darn it. It's a good movie though. I love the creature design. It's so different. More evil troll or inbred mountain man/beast than a classical yeti/bigfoot design. The way the jaw opens up real wide like a Thylacine and those huge needle like teeth. Pretty cool.
As someone who's 56, I hear you.
I liked it. I watch alot of Monster lore. And I like how they address The yeti are the most aggressive of the sasquatch relatives. It look they they migrated across and killed the big foots in that area.
tell that to the TN wildman version of Sasquatch. Those things are supposed to be pure evil with red eyes that delight in killing dogs.
meanwhile we need a movie about the Hibagon, the Japanese big foot/yeti.
hmm thats a new one for me
@@Necrowolf81 there already is a movie about the hibagon. But it’s a rather decent satire on corrupt towns, based on a book duology.
There’s a lot of Bigfoot-esque creatures roaming around the world.
There’s Bigfoot himself, the Yeti, Hibagon, Yowie, Orang Pendek, the list goes on.
So has Lance Henrikson been in more Bigfoot movies than Alien movies?
Matt McCoy has also been in several Bigfoot movies. And this is the only one with both of them. Why are people making so many crappy Bigfoot movies?!
Lance Henriksen has a resemblance to Joe Kubert’s Tarzan illustrations, and has played Kerchak (the gorilla variant, not the canonical mangani counterpart) in Disney’s Tarzan.
This is my friend George I will love him and pet him and keep him warm at night.
I remember when I was in the Army and my friend flash his flash light out in the woods and we saw a bunch of glowing eyes but of course they were raccoons🦝🦝🦝
Raccoons are more likely to steal your food than maul you though.
I remember watching this one night on SciFi channel back in highschool. It was interesting to say the least.
You forgot that Lalo Schiflin also did the score for "Cool Hand Luke", "THX 1138" (George Lucas' first film), the "Rush Hour" films, and, of course, all but one of the "Dirty Harry" movies.
All the cameo spotting, even a Seinfeld reference, and not a single Lloyd Braun joke!?
Also the vice principal from the Breakfast Club was also in Seinfeld, he's the one that interviewed George at the Yankees. Apparently they recruited for this movie amongst Seinfeld alums.
Having an actual budget makes a big difference with a film like this. Like the difference between a pretty good looking big foot/yeti whatever and a guy named Larry running around in a bathroom rug. Good job Brandon.
Hell yeah I was really hoping you’d cover this one someday. Probably my fav Sasquatch movie, kills were fucking gnarly.
I remember watching this movie late one night. I remember the scene where the Sasquatch smashed the Asian girl's guts out of her behind.
I remember stumbling upon this watching syfy when i was a kid, fully expecting the normal cheesey stuff that'd air. 20 years later and i still hate the woods because all i can picture is gettinf my face literally eaten off. Glad to see one of ny favorite creators check it out, hopefully more people will watch it and love it too
10/10 review. Flawed but I remember liking it well enough. I like how bizarre and surreal this Bigfoot/Yeti is with his jaw dislocating like a snake's. Who would have guessed. And I bet Lance Henriksen believes in Bigfoot that's why he's in so many of them. He's a smart dude he knows Bigfoots are real and he's trying to spread awareness. BTW, the main character's actor he was Lloyd Braun on Seinfeld. so there's at least two Seinfeld dudes in this.
That's an interesting theory about Lance.
Estelle Costanza, "George, why can't you be more like that nice boy Lloyd Braun?"
I remember watching this movie a lot on old Sci-Fi back in the day, usually as part of their Saturday creature features
One of my favorite movies I saw on sci-fi channel as a kid
Jeffery Combs is such an amazing actor that he can deliver the most ridiculous unnatural sounding lines and make them sound like Shakespeare!
Lance Combs and Jeffrey Henriksen were great in this movie 👍 😊.
oh you should see his performance as Thylek Shran.. seeing him call Archer a "pinkskin" is hilarious :D
Loved this movie on SyFy, bought it on DVD when the video rental store I worked at back then got it in stock.
The face biting scene has got to be one of the greatest things ever put on film.
I’m a little upset that Clint Howard wasn’t on that hunting trip
Note: *NOT* to be confused with the DreamWorks movie.
Yeah, that movie is showing up in the recommended section as I'm watching this. LOL.
Yeah. This one's actually GOOD!
@@mightyfilm hey! Dreamworks version was a banger!
It was easily the least of the three animated Yeti movies. It was safe, plagiarized, Chinese tourism commercial that I STILL want my money and 90 minutes back for seeing. Small Foot and Missing Link ALL THE WAY!
There were two recurring Seinfeld characters in this movie. The actor playing Preston (Matt McCoy) was George’s childhood rival Lloyd Braun and the actor playing one of the deputies (Phil Morris) was Kramer’s lawyer Jackie Chiles 😂
This movie was a lot of fun and I liked the design of the Bigfoot, and the twist ending was great. But what was up with the awful under lighting towards the end.
This was my favorite Bigfoot movie ever since I was a kid plus it came the year I was born 2006
And the farmer from the beginning is Rex Linn! This cast is crazy cameo city!
Brandon, you know damn well there ismno such thing as a gratuitous shawer scene. All shower scenes are absolutely vital to the story of every movie you see them in. If anything, there needs to be 4x as many shower scenes per movie.
Been ages since I saw this movie. Saw it for the first time on the Sci-Fi channel, (back when the movies were half-way decent, and NOT all made by the Asylum), and I thought it was pretty good for a made for TV movie. It's still decent even after all this time.
Hey Brandon, didn't you notice Rex Linn of "Cliffhanger" and CSI: Miami" fame and "Cuthhroat Island" infamy? And the late great Paul Gleason (he died the year this movie was released, 2006) was also in "Die hard" and "Trading places", just to name his most notable non-school related roles - sure you're very familiar with both of those.
This being said: YOU ROCK!
He also made a wrongful claim stating that Paul Gleason was in Revenge of the Nerds IV, he wasn't, that was actually James Gleason instead. Should've gone with Die Hard or his multiple appearances on The A-Team instead.
"Where the hell is Beeks?!"
I thought I recognized it
And this was one of the films I watched where it still stuck with me for years and like everyone else who was probably still in elementary school when the film came out(meaning they were younger like 6 or 9 like I was)I don’t know how it didn’t scare me
Either the kills or girls is why I still remember it
The sound when the dog gets killed sounds like the sound wolves and wargs do when they attack in world of warcraft.
Decided to check out this movie following the community update.
Judging by the kills featured in the video, I can already tell that this review is going to be good.
This is probably one of my new favorite reviews from you, so glad you checked it out. Also, the reason why they probably called this movie Abominable is because the title sounded cooler and more fitting.
the definition of that word is causing moral revulsion or very bad or unpleasant
I guess up in the mountains, the Yeti went to electrical school and learnt how to switch off the power before his kills
2:40 The anti dog fog rolled in off the… How do you spell “mores” moors? Or is that more of a cow thing?
The point is, the fog took the dog, and this is now a Dr.Sues story.
The fog took the dog, in front of the frog as the Big Foot ran back or was that jogged? Moving so fast back home to the bog, Sassy ran right through the fog, noticing the mist eating a dog!
You can’t do that! Not here in this bog, now you spit it out, don’t eat the dog.
As he spoke, there sat the frog, who had seen the dog eating the dog.
I saw it right there as I sat atop that log, the treacherous mist devoured the dog. Do it now, tell the Big Foot, Fog!
The fog hung thick, over and under the log.
Make your peace, I ate that dog! Came a thundering voice, shaking the bog.
Sasquatch stared, and the angry frog glared. Why would you eat the dog, playing with friends, just as special as Frog?
I hate children’s books.
I'm goina read this comment to my children from a bedtime story. You should find an illustrator and make a fortune!
"I wasn't always in this wheelchair." I'm sure his mother was grateful for that during his birth.
Imagine the confusion on the face of the doctor doing the sonogram! "Congratulations ma'am. You're having a ..... Transformer??"
I remember watching this movie when I was a kid and it scared the hell out of me. Now looking back on it it isn’t that scary
Funny how that plays out. Took me years to dare watching "The Thing" on a premium channel. Now, I can wake at 2 in the morning, watch the film; fall back to sleep with nary a dream.
I wanna see this for the cameos AND Otis' head being bitten off!
Maybe the real Abominable was the friends we made along the way 🤔
I think a more realistic Bigfoot horror movie would be a gentle Bigfoot family having to fight off sadistic human hunters.
Takes place in what looks like North America... in a place called Flatwoods, as in, The Flatwoods Monster. Which wasn't a Sasquatch or a Yeti.
I always thought the 'Yeti' looked like Stacy Keach!...LOL
To mention a really deep cut cameo: Dr Seussmeyer, the guy on the web video is James Morrison, an Australian Jazz Trumpet legend! Also co-wrote the movie!
This is like a collaboration between George Romero (Monkey Shines) and Alfred Hitchcock (Rear Window)
Where’s the little girl that’s supposed to take the Yeti back to its people 😂
Looks like one of the Critters has been eating his off-brand Wheaties
I remember watching this when I was a older teen on the scifi channel back in the day and being surprised at how good it was. It's honestly one of if not their best film and really goes to show how putting a decent amount of effort into a lower budget film can go a long way. (Edit: I genuinely felt bad for the poor girls and the one in the shower was a real hottie)
it premiered on scfi but was not made by them or Asylum like most of the original trash they show these days
@@Necrowolf81 Oh that explains it. Thanks for the info
The ending scene of this movie is like if the ending of Harry and the Hendersons film was a horror.
This opening reminds me of "Silent Rage", featuring Chuck Norris.
The first scene flows from the credits into like a 4 minute scene taken in a single take. Showing you a lot about the killer.
Then the first cut is on Chuck and the movie goes RiffTrax material from there.
Obligatory "LANCE!" for this movie.
I remember watching this years ago and since most Bigfoot movies are crap... I was pleasantly surprised. Maybe only decent Bigffot movies have actors from Cliffhanger in them... Harry and Hendersons anyone?
Harry and The Hendersons was a good movie
This looks like one to add to my collection.
I love your Frankenstein, Hulk, Swamp-Thing, Trogg Bigfoot, Yeti etc voice!!!! 😂❤
I also liked yeti and sasquatch movies so this'll be fun
So is this Harry before or after he met The Hendersons? I kind of have vague memories of this but I don't remember if I ever caught the whole film or just parts of it. Great video Brandon, just what I needed at work lol.
For another Sasquatch horror movie, "Exists" wasn't too bad!
Paul Gleason (THE BREAKFAST CLUB) was also in DOC SAVAGE THE MAN OF BRONZE (as "Long Tom"). The black cop was Phil Morris, son of Greg Morris, and starred in the 80s revival of MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, playing Barney Collier's son "Grant Collier".
I'm so happy your channel is still going strong, i see so many classic youtube reviewers fall down a dark path and it makes me happy to see your still standing.
Sasquatch slasher? SLASHSQUATCH? Why isn't there a movie called...*searches* oh, there is. Or will be.
I love this movie and was excited to see you review it! You did not disappoint!
Oh wow wow a Brandon Tenold episode! Time to jump in!
I remember seeing this back on Syfy back when it was still known as the "Sci-Fi Channel" back in 2006. Definitely one of the better, if not the best Sci-Fi Channel original movies.
thats because it wasn't an SF original movie. Just premiered on that channel like Dog Soldiers.
@@Necrowolf81 That explains it then. XD
Great video Brandon made work on a Friday that much better
Love your videos man
Yess!!!thanks for reviewing this one!!
I always wanted to check this out. Looks mildly entertaining.
i love how the yeti looks just so pissed off that preston is harshing his buzz
Great reference with Old School.
The video expert is Australian jazz musician, James Morrison. My question is, what the hell is he doing in this?
I was wondering when someone i watched was going to get to this movie. I am glad it was you, Brandon. For the longest time until I watched it again, the one thing that stood out to me was the shot of the male nurse after the Yeti/Bigfoot chewed off his face
Keep up the great work dude. You're amazing
Jeffery Combs, eh? Too bad he didn't get to say "Bigfoot! I NEEDED that!"
Man, Weyoun really let himself go after they lost the Dominion War
Film is pretty solid, always a good late night watch if it was on tv. The creature was unnerving, loved the lack of CGI and the pulled through the window and face bitten off kills were great!
Would love to see you tackle another late night sci-fi channel monster-in-the-woods classic, It Waits!
That was a long intro ad, but I sit through it only because it's Brandon's video.
Imagine a Bigfoot vs Godzilla movie?
Godzilla steps on Bigfoot, game over 😁
Godzilla may not have fought Bigfoot in a movie, but in the Marvel comics he fought the kaiju Yetrigar. Plus the Hanna Barbera Godzilla series (on the Toho youtube channel) has an episode with a yeti type kaiju called Great Watchuka.